A day after a shooting left five staff members dead, a Capital Gazette reporter says the incident isn’t ‘going to stop any of us from doing the work that we think is important and we love’

The morning after a gunman shot his way into their newsroom and killed five of their colleagues, surviving staff members of the Capital Gazette reconvened in the Baltimore Sun’s office and discussed whether to cover a candlelight vigil scheduled for that evening.

It was the sort of news event the Capital would typically cover as the daily local newspaper for Annapolis, Maryland’s capital city. Reporter Danielle Ohl, who had been on vacation and not in the office at the time of the shooting, said she and a colleague volunteered...